Dear All
If someone asked you to justify your job, you might find that a bit tricky because in some places of work there are too many moving parts. But if you are in charge, then you are responsible for ensuring that the parts are in sync and moving in the right direction. What Scottish people are waking up too is problem which started in 2007 when Nicola Sturgeon was appointed by Alex Salmond as Health Secretary. I suppose putting Sturgeon in charge of health, one of the big briefs in the Scottish Government was all part of making her look 'caring'. The Sturgeon team crafted a slick PR image of being specific targets in Health down, but while this 'smokescreen' was in operation, the rest of the service was suffering. One episode of the Sturgeon tenure which sticks out was new born babies being wrapped in towels instead of blankets. You might even remember this story of 2012, this was one of a range of failure issues which would eventually boil over, but not before Nicola Sturgeon was moved. After 5 years of incompetence, the 'smokescreen' surrounding Sturgeon's tenure in post was clearing.
After Sturgeon was moved to be the 'face of independence', those who followed her made the Health Service worse, or made no impact on the decline. The three people who have had the most damaging effect on the service under SNP misrule are Nicola Sturgeon, Shona Robison and Jeane Freeman. Sturgeon cemented downward decline, Robison's tenure showed that she was woefully out of her depth, and Jeane Freeman who was at the helm when covid infected patients were sent into sterile care homes, thousands died. Freeman having reached the age of 67 decided to retire, in her get out pitch, she said Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has said the Scottish Government ‘didn’t take the right precautions’ to protect the elderly. You might think by her statement that her role in the deaths of thousands was that of a casual bystander and not as the person holding the public office of Health Secretary.
Thousands of people are dead because of Jeane Freeman, and thousands more will also die due to the failure to return the Scottish Health Service to normal operations, and that includes the GP service. You should stay tuned for more about the GP service in Scotland because this is an area which will generate as many stories as the ambulance service already does. Curtailment or limited access to face to face GP appointments will be lead to disaster, misery and heartache for families. And all of this grief will affect everyone at some point unless Scotland returns itself to proper devolved government. Devolution has turned into the most expensive democratic failure in Scotland over the last 22 years. Donald Dewar uttered the words, 'there shall be a Scottish Parliament' but it attracted a host of people hostile to devolution and people who were such low calibre politicians. Holyrood is a university student union debating society full of immature people, who have little or no character. Nicola Sturgeon is the head of the snake who minor players revolve around.
Holyrood
does nothing of note, and delivers nothing of note to the people, and I am
talking about real change, not a council tax freeze, not baby boxes, not free
laptops and not free bikes. I am talking about real change in education, in
health outcomes, in housing provision, in regeneration of towns. You could make
a huge list, and ask yourself what has been done in real problems facing
Scotland. You would be disappointed in the progress! The SNP are quick to judge
others for their failures, they are quick to promote themselves as people with
high moral values. The truth is they aren't people of worth, and by worth I am
talking about the real meaning of the word, not financial. We have in Holyrood
and the SNP Government, over promoted people who espouse their 'love' of Scotland
while at the same time tearing it down piece by piece.
In the past, I have touched on every SNP Health Sec, and what their modus operandi was in the blog, it seems that the criteria for appointment to that position seemed based on a mixture of cronyism, identity politics and symbolism. The sole criteria for promotion to Health Sec should have been on merit, sadly such a concept doesn't exist in the SNP. Having run out of 'pals', Sturgeon was forced to go the route of 'allies', which is how we ended up with Humza Yousaf, someone not just unsuitable to be a Minister of the Crown, but also of public office. Humza Yousaf, not known for making a difference to the people of Scotland accept in a negative way. You may remember his recent quest to play the race card, and I know you will have heard or seen his Holyrood rank about 'white people' in jobs. His latest rant to attack a nursery in Broughty Ferry because they didn't offer his daughter a place, his lawyer, the odious Aamer Anwar who I remember from Glasgow University for stirring up racial tensions on campus wrote to 'demand' an apology and a sum of money to a charity. So, the 'Humza' offer is admit you're racist and pay money. Sadly for Humza, the nursery owned by ethnic people is not moved by threats, they aren't apologising, they aren't sacking staff members and they aren't paying money. Here are two clips to watch, the reason for both clips listed is that previously on the blog, I noted how Humza Yousaf and Anas Sarwar were effectively acting as a 'double act' on racism. Listening to their rants, do you believe in coincidence?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ28yh7F228
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lXJdKSjNlc
Now, as part of identity politics and symbolism, and frankly limited options, we have Humza Yousaf, who will be at the helm of the nation's health. In fact, his performance so far has led people to ask him to justify remaining as Health Secretary after A&E waiting time performances hit a series of record lows. Official figures show almost a third of people in emergency departments waited longer than the four-hour target in the week to September 12. The question is, why are the SNP not properly funding health care? While they have centralised services, under the guise of providing better services (their rationale), they have also been involved in cuts. When you attend a hospital, you expect a wait because you would recognise a twisted ankle is less serious than a heart attack, it isn't first come, first served, and it never should be. Back in 2015, I attended A&E at QEUH in Glasgow, the first time, I was there, I was kicked out as a timewaster, and given a lecture on who A&E was for. 55 hours, I was back at the same hospital because after a visit to my GP, he wrote them a letter telling them I was a medical emergency. With 10 minutes of arriving at hospital and handing in the letter, I was rushed into treatment. I had a blocked bladder, blocked bowel and my kidneys were frying in toxic blood. The same symptoms I described to my GP, I described to a Dr and a nurse at the QEUH two days earlier, and I was calm and clear when I told both these people. If you have a blocked bladder, that is a medical emergency, because the other issues I listed follow on from that. If my bladder had burst, I would be dead, you end up with sepsis, renal failure and hyperkalaemia, and this can eventually a very real and painful death.
In the present day, at according to available information at £850m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, only 44.8% of its 1,677 A&E attendances were seen within four hours, with 314 waiting more than eight hours and 78 waiting more than 12. The picture doesn't just affect one hospital, across the other side of the country, at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, only 52.2% of its 2,509 A&E attendances were seen on time, with 340 waiting over eight hours and 141 waiting over 12. The bottom line here is that there is a health crisis, well actually, this is set to continue, Covid has effectively stop hospitals and GPs operating normal, so there is a backlog of undiagnosed cases right across the board. Also those currently waiting will probably experience longer waiting times with operations put back. If you are a person needing heart surgery, or cancer surgery, every day your operation is delayed is an enormous risk. The priority now is a return to normal operations, the longer the delay to this option, the higher the health tsunami will be, and when it hits, a lot of people will not sadly survive. All the things you hear now about the failings in the health service are symptoms, symptoms of bad leadership of the service since the SNP's negligence in government. What do I mean by bad leadership, bad leaders come up with bad ideas, years ago when I taught at university as a fitness coach, I used to tell people that the 'solution to a problem should not create another problem'. Humza Yousaf has decided that it is a good idea to 'rob Peter to pay Paul', in this respect, he as the Health Secretary is preparing to draft in firefighters to drive ambulances. This is part of his new multi-million pound package to tackle the health emergency. In his speech to Holyrood, there is a word, I want you to look at, that word is 'new', because this word is being used as a smokescreen.
Before being taken in with the word, 'new' as it relates to ambulance staff, the question, you should ask is how many have left the service, whether that be by retirement or any other factor? You have to ask that question because statistically it has a meaningful value. When someone 'new' replaces someone who has left that means zero increase in productivity. Yousaf's speech is flawed by design because it doesn't address detailed concerns in areas where questions should be asked. When you listen or read what politicians say, you are only getting half the picture, you also have to stop and think about what they didn't say but should have. Looking and listening for what they did say is a key point in helping you understand what the true picture of a situation actually is.
Finally, a long time ago, David Cameron, when PM proposed a scheme which came under the umbrella called 'Big Society'. The idea was sound in principle, as was designed in order to generate, develop and showcase new ideas to help people to come together in their neighbourhoods to do good things. The SNP rejected this idea completely out of hand, of course, volunteering isn't nothing new in the UK, there literally thousands up and down the land doing it in Scotland. If, the SNP had gone along with the idea, there would be effectively a volunteer corp in Scotland, which could have been utilised to assist the ambulance service, staving off part of the health crisis we current face, due to the SNP mis-management. Humza Yousaf as I pointed out isn't a leader, he isn't even a good politician, he isn't creative, he isn't someone who is capable. Will Humza Yousaf resign from his position, the answer is clearly not. Humza has 'unfinished business', and that is to get his wife on the MSP gravy train, and try and established himself as a key player in Scottish politics and create a familyesque dynasty in the SNP. To me, Humza Yousaf fits into the bracket of 'race card' politician, there are in all parties, trying in some cases to make out there are the leader of an ethnic group when in fact, they create barriers, not tear them down. Please watch the two youtube videos of Humza Yousaf and Anas Sarwar. What you are listening for is what they are not saying, and what they are not saying is, they aren't naming a single white person who is racist in any of the positions they mention?
Don't
you think you should ask yourself, why not?
Yours sincerely
2 comments:
Sick people waiting for an ambulance "White"
Can't really add to any of that, the man needs investigating from the bottom up.
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